My country has purchased 12 fighters and ordered a total of 52 F-35 A aircrafts, at a cost of NOK 87 billion kroner(9.5 billion US dollars.) These aircrafts are great technological devices, I have started to love them. But do we really need them? And do we need so many?
Spending money on mutual peace conferences and agreements instead.
Why don’t we spend $ 2 billion on peace work with our neighbor Russia instead? Then both parties would have had less need to spend both yours and mine tax money on military armament as a deterrent tactic. Telling Russia: ” Boo, now i scared you, Putin” , is that the best way to make peace? I just ask out of my total naivity! This is a field I have not studied. I can only imagine weapon producers like the US, Russia and Norway may lose money on that peace-work, and people lose their jobs in the weapon industry. Loosing your job is not good. However we can compensate this by not making so many job-stealing robots in other fields of industry and trade. But the most important question here is what we lose by continuing rearmament? I just wonder……
(According to my research on killed in conflicts between nations and different groups this is what I found: Weapons and the result of war have actually killed approximately 90 million people since 1939. Only during the Second World War around 72 million people lost their life, most of them civilians. About 25 million of them were military personnel) (check http://Is the biggest treath in the world you and me)
What an amazing aircraft!
For me with my addiction to all kinds of airplanes and aircrafts this plane is wonderful! Preferably without bombs. But I personally think that when you first buy these expensive inventions, you must choose the F-35 B version of the fighter. Unfortunately my government have bought the Lockheed Martin F-35 A version, and not the F-35 B version. This last type or version has to my opinion the great advantage that they are suitable for hatch parking in heavily populated cities. (see me when I testfly it first time from gate 14 at Gardermoen Airport towards the sky above Oslo , (3 min)
1. Take off: https://youtu.be/a3XPeMx-8GM 2. Landing at Orly, Paris(40sec)https://youtu.be/ZlXeUpoIXDM
Before vertical take off-at the Airport of Gardermoen, photo janeriwaa
Building down stately infrastructure, institutions and social support, and outsourcing railways, healthcare and wellfare.
In Norway, post offices, services to the public are closed down every day. Local hospitals, maternity wards, psychiatric hospitals and treatment centers for mental disorders are also shut down. This happens usually with the reason that it is too expensive for the state to run small units, or with the excuse that these institutions do not have good enough professional conditions . The long time planned and wanted North-Norway Railway to Tromsø is on hault. Even the general maintenance of our railways, we are unable to secure properly.
The state that has secured us all an unprecedented stately wealth from our oil installations , is now being built down bit by bit. Services are outsourced and institutions like hospitals and Kindergartens sold to private investors, with companies registered in tax paradises.
This is the neo-liberals main project, along with economic growth. But we cannot tolerate this growth. Because we live by and in nature. We also live by the environment. See Linn Stalsberg’s summary of this way of living and managing a country. (“It’s enough now!” Stalsberg 2019)
For us normal mainstream citizens this makes us scared. And the security we have had that the Norwegian State takes care of us wherever we live in this long and widespread country, is being lost gradually, step by step.
Psychologically this is not at all good. We are in peril of developing a competitive society where everyone must fight for himself, and where solidarity and equality soon will end on the scrap heap. Is this what economic wealth and richness makes to a country? I thought it was more prominent in really poor countries.
Readers: Excuse me for this post, it’s obviously something I haven’t cathched or understood, that our state leaders and politicians know about life on earth. Cause I can’t understand that we must sacrifice millions of civilians lives to secure peace……